When You Are Engulfed In Flames - Hardcover

Sedaris, David

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9781408700914: When You Are Engulfed In Flames

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ISBN 10: 1408700913 ISBN 13: 9781408700914

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2008

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A new roundup of personal essays from the number one bestselling writer named by Time as America's favourite humorist! When set on fire, most of us either fumble for our wallets or waste valuable time feeling sorry for ourselves. David Sedaris has studied this phenomenon, and his resulting insights may very well save your life. Author of the national bestsellers Should You Be Attacked by Snakes and If You Are Surrounded by Mean Ghosts, When You are Engulfed by Flames finds Sedaris at the top of his game. Oh, all right, David Sedaris has written yet another book of essays (his sixth). Subjects include a parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo, and the recreational use of an external catheter. Also recounted is the buying of a human skeleton, and the author's attempt to quit smoking. In Tokyo. Master of nothing, at the dead centre of his game, Sedaris proves that when you play with matches, you sometimes light the whole pack on fire.

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A virtual Klondike of darkly glittering anecdotes. (Adam Mars-Jones, Observer)

'Sedari s' anecdotes play off his sublime talent for turning the absurdly neurotic into the hilariously funny. (GQ)

Howlingly funny, jaw-snappingly honest and endlessly perceptive... Sedari s' wellspring of quirky yet strangely universal comic experiences show no sign of drying up. (Tom Cox, Daily Mail)

The most popular American humorist since Woody Allen... As a prose stylist he is often compared to that other great New Yorker writer James Thurber - dry, mordant, pitch perfect. As a human being, the most obvious comparison is with the comedian Larry Davi (Ngel Farndale, Sunday Telegraph)

Book Description:

* A brilliant new collection of stories from the number 1 bestselling writer named by TIME magazine as America's Favorite Humorist

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